Best Football Headline (1 Viewer)

[Sbarcher]

Got me thinking. Chelsea playing Bate tonight. A few years ago Everton played them and won. Headline next day in the paper was “Everton master Bate”. A classic missed by most people but journos having a laugh.
Any others?

 

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[usskyblue]

‘SEAMAN FORCED OUT AFTER FINGER BLOW’

 

[I_Saw_Shaw_Score]

‘SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC, CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS’

After Inverness knocked them out of the cup at Parkhead about 2000ish

 

[Otis]

‘SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC, CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS’

After Inverness knocked them out of the cup at Parkhead about 2000ish

Yeah, best ever. Close thread.

 

[Calista]

I liked the Leamington Courier after the Brakes had beaten their rivals from the south coast - "ONE IN THE EYE FOR HASTINGS".

 

[lapsed_skyblue]

“Jap sub sinks Forest.”
Nottingham Forest playing Bayern (I think) lost after a substitute of Japanese origin scored the winning goal.

 

[Covstu]

Shame Bate were not playing Celtic or the headline could have been Bate Bhoys...

 

[Hobo]

Wasn't there one like Seaman Comes in Schmeichels box . Or was that a fantasy football side?

 

[skybluesam66]

Cricket commentary

The bowler,s holding
The batsman,s willey

 

[cov4theprem]

Sky blues, sky high

 

[Adge]

Didn’t like the England “Turnip Taylor” business when he was in charge. But a good one from that era when USA beat England-
“Yanks 2 Planks 0”

 

[covmark]

England
Algeria
Slovenia
Yanks

The headline when we got drawn this group for the 2010 world cup.

That went well.....

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[DionDublinsJockstrap]

‘SEAMAN FORCED OUT AFTER FINGER BLOW’

After a particularly fine game for him - Everything stuck to Seaman

 

[DionDublinsJockstrap]

Can't let this go without Joe Mercers comment to Rodney Marsh before a preason friendly

Rodney I'm going to pull you off at half time

Thanks boss but at QPR we just used to get an orange

 

[oucho]

On Ceefax a few years on the news index, they used to have a single word giving them theme followed by a headline, all on the same line of text. Once they did

BLOW: Jobs lost at car factory.

 

[matesx]

Not a headline but classic commentary “oh my goodness! Nayim lobs Seaman from the half way line!”

 

[Nick]

Wasn't there an American one about them winning but they drew? Or did I imagine it

 

[usskyblue]

Wasn't there an American one about them winning but they drew? Or did I imagine it

Oh, ffs m8

 

[Nick]

Oh, ffs m8

Ha one of those things you know you have seen but don't pay attention

 

[Magwitch]

Cricket commentary

The bowler,s holding
The batsman,s willey

I heard that when it happened the best ever from the late great commentator Brian Johnson. England v West Indies with Indies batsman Michael Holding facing England bowler Peter Willey Johnson innocently introduced us to the match by saying the batsman’s Holding the bowlers Willey absolute class.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Given - The only Irishman who doesn't know where Dublin is.

 

[Magwitch]

Another classic was from Fulham manager Alec Stock’s answer to his goalkeeper can’t think of his name but in the cup-final v West Ham he let a goal in through his legs, he said sorry boss “I should of kept my legs closed” manager Stock replied “I wish your mother had” another classic

 

[Cranfield Sky Blue]

I heard that when it happened the best ever from the late great commentator Brian Johnson. England v West Indies with Indies batsman Michael Holding facing England bowler Peter Willey Johnson innocently introduced us to the match by saying the batsman’s Holding the bowlers Willey absolute class.

Whenever I hear Brian Johnson’s name, I think of the Botham tried to get his leg over moment!

(If you’re under 45 google it!)

 

[Otis]

Patrick Thistle manager, John Lambie upon being told by the trainer that his striker had been concussed in a game and didn't know who he was, came out with 'Great. Tell him he's Pele and get him back on!'

 

[Otis]

Ruud Gullit - 'We must have had 99% of the match. It was the other 3% that cost us the game.'

Howard Wilkinson -'I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.'

David Beckham - When asked by an interviewer if he was volatile he said 'Well I usually play in the centre or on the right, but I can play on the left as well.'

David Beckham - 'We're definitely going to get Brooklyn Christened, but we don't know into which religion.'

Ron Atkinson - 'Well, Clive, it's all about the two M's, movement and positioning.'

Ron Atkinson - 'I never comment on referees and I am not going to change the habit of a lifetime for that prat.'

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Whenever I hear Brian Johnson’s name, I think of the Botham tried to get his leg over moment!

(If you’re under 45 google it!)

David Lawrence

 

[Calista]

I remember John Motson saying in the 1982 World Cup, after a Spaniard got away with a bad foul – “that was a let-off for Ufarte”.

 

[standupforcity]

I heard that when it happened the best ever from the late great commentator Brian Johnson. England v West Indies with Indies batsman Michael Holding facing England bowler Peter Willey Johnson innocently introduced us to the match by saying the batsman’s Holding the bowlers Willey absolute class.

'Cowdrey...standing in the slips with his legs wide open...waiting for a tickle'...John Arlott.

 

[oucho]

Ha one of those things you know you have seen but don't pay attention

There was a big newspaper in the US which went to its first edition announcing the result of the presidential election and announced the wrong candidate as the winner....1948.

Dewey Defeats Truman - Wikipedia

 

[lapsed_skyblue]

Another Joe Mercer comment about a Coventry performance "We started badly and fell away"

 

[hill83]

"Matty Jarvis had acres of time there" - Stan Collymore

 

[Mask]

Wasn't there an American one about them winning but they drew? Or did I imagine it

That's one that sprung to my mind, too!

 

[Frank Sidebottom]

More of an advert than headline, But I still remember this appearing in our programme a few years back.

 

[Frank Sidebottom]

After England had lost to Croatia and a backpass had bobbled over Paul Robinson's foot straight into the back of his net the Sun went with....
"Here's to you misses Robinson"

 

[Magwitch]

'Cowdrey...standing in the slips with his legs wide open...waiting for a tickle'...John Arlott.

Arr John Arlott, surely the best commentator voice of the lot.